LA Times - We mailed 100 letters to test the Postal Service.

[DFW]

21. We did a test of absentee ballot size envelopes.

Not intentionally, but it turned out as if it were a test case. Some distant ancestor of ours in New York City had some trust fund that sent me $89 or some such princely sum every year. This either ran dry or was eaten up by fees, or something that caused this year to be the end of it. I’m glad, actually, because the resulting paperwork and tax declaration were more than they were worth. My brother in Virginia got his on July 31st. Mine arrived in Dallas on August 14th, the day I arrived back in Germany. They had been sent from NYC on the same day.

As a contrast, I recently sent a letter from here (Düsseldorf area) to Dallas. It took 7 days to get there, so it isn’t some worldwide virus problem. It is a Trump-Miller-Kushner-DeJoy problem. It is a Republican problem.